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top stories this morning accusations that america's siding with egypt's islamist leaders but the main opposition leaders refusing to meet u.s. secretary of state john kerry in cairo. bradley manning's partial guilty plea isn't enough for u.s. prosecutors who intend to prove the wiki leaks whistleblower aided terrorist by leaking classified documents. and why britain's brightest of bailing out for better lives elsewhere were examined what's making them pack up and the damage it could cause the u.k. . over the morning shoots kevin oh and here they are to new central moscow this morning just after midnight now first egypt's opposition has lashed out at washington for meddling in the country's affairs the main leaders refusing to meet secretary of state john kerry who's in cairo they accuse america of siding with the
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ruling muslim brotherhood despite egypt sharp political divisions. looks at what the u.s. chief diplomats intentions could be. he says that the purpose of his visit is essentially to discuss regional and international issues have a wide spectrum of egyptian leadership that is refusing to meet with him the criticism is coming from liberal and secular leaders and they accuse kerry and the united states of siding with the muslim brotherhood and they accuse its leader mohamed morsi of the same should be stepping into the same role as the ousted dictator hosni mubarak now it is true that the united states has maintained close ties with morsi but the criticism is that he is failing to implement reforms and at the same time he is turning the country into a more religiously conservative ruling system at least to opposition figures have refused invitations from kerry to sit down and hold talks with him and this follows this week a call by the united states for the main opposition group and that is known as the
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national salvation front to reverse its decision to boycott parliamentary elections that are due to begin next month kerry was in ankara telling the turks that they need to improve their relationship with israel the turkish prime minister recently made the comment that zionism was a crime against humanity and response to those kerry said that the comments were objects in a bowl those comments could indeed frustrate kerry's attempts to try and create an improvement in a strange israeli turkish relations that have hit an all time low what we essentially see through kerry's visit is an attempt by the united states to try and appease countries in the region israel to essentially insure television security but the problem really is that the positions of both israel and the united states in this region are at an all time low they are under threat and in most small part due to the actions of washington and tel aviv themselves the situation in syria has only made things worse you have the rise of islamic extremism across the region
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following the arab spring and this is something that the united states directly supported at the same time what we're really seeing is and washington is having to deal with problems that it created and this is essentially the call or at least part of the core of kerry's first visit to this region after taking office. fall asleep or our middle east correspondent there with more john kerry's visit to egypt let's not talk to. me editor of the london based arabic newspaper al arab based on his on the line john kerry arrived in egypt just a protest storm a security building the city of mansoura torch a police station in port side how much to promote the new egypt there is it well indeed. john kerry arrived in egypt you know very critical. time and there have been in. front of the u.s. embassy to the. egyptian youth it is the really
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ironic the united states has been the safety of theater show for the kids. is being seen today after the revolution as the main support of the new emerging fascist rule in egypt to by many egyptians that's why they don't get to the street. again is john kerry's visit is a very difficult time and the united states again is very unpopular in the streets of egypt sadly kerry says he wants bickering egyptians to find a political consensus doesn't he just think the u.s. is the right mediator for that. as you know some of. the prominent leaders of the opposition's have actually refused to meet with kerry today and this is sending
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a very strong. situation of the egyptian political elite as well as the people of egypt are really upset with the united states trying to put pressure on those issues to reconsider its decision to boycott the coming election. this is unacceptable the united states is interfering in egypt's internal affairs in favor of the ruling islamist party. as you can. now be a relation with the new regime in egypt is much better for example than a lesion where was there. with whom they are really upset because of our going statements regarding the i want to talk about turkey me a bit before we get to that survey kerry is also expected to push cairo do agree to
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an almost five billion dollar i.m.f. loan say this would bring in other funds from the u.s. europe the arab states why are they i'm so keen to pump more cash into egypt them obama's already pledged billion dollars last april. well this is another example of actually interfering in egypt's affairs this one is controversial in egypt people are concerned that arrangement to actually make this loan possible will be very painful for source who are suffering the most among the egyptian people prices have really. taxes taxes are more likely now to go up again so by putting pressure on the regime to reach and. reach a deal with the i.m.f. i think the american foreign secretary again is pushing in the wrong direction we talked about turkey just that when kerry was
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a prime minister anyway to other countries differences with israel are they going to see him do the same in egypt to quell the growing antti israeli mood there then . well i think the relation to be muslim brotherhood brotherhood regime is the united states and there. are quite good i mean that's why maybe this will explain why bin it is not really keen to pressure on the regime rather well the pressure on the opposition. i mean you know complaints from the israeli side. the borders of israel are required thanks it was a strong why is the morsi a few months ago. that's the. problem is upset about turkey because of that we never heard of anything like from president morsi was to be islamist.
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leader of the most important. country so. there is nothing to worry americans on the side openly khaled osho the editor of the newspaper online from london thank you. the u.s. is pushing forward with a full court martial against army whistleblower bradley manning prosecutors plan to call a full witness list to prove he's guilty of a range of serious charges including aiding the enemy manning denies this admitting only to providing secret data to wiki leaks the aim of revealing what he called the true cost of war to america's out to blake who is at the hearing. when p.f.c. manning finished reading his thirty five page statement he turned his microphone off he was done testifying and a handful of members of the press gallery actually journalists began applauding it was something that people had waited for a long time there he was speaking very truthfully and with power about what he did
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and why he did it and i think that resonated with a lot of people a big small man only five foot two you know one hundred some odd pounds sitting very calm very collectively very cool right in front of the judge and read it thirty five page statement pretty much owning up to every single fact that the government has accused him of for the last three years and it was people expected him to go ahead and plead guilty but the way in which he actually honored what he did himself in the way that he actually took still to this day is ok with with releasing information and is aware of the significance i think really shows this was someone who had committed to doing something and was aware aware of the repercussions and is ok with that live from guilty of aiding the enemy private money could spend the rest of his life in prison he's already spent over a thousand bones awaiting trial monies to friends to give these harsh detention conditions violated his constitutional rights that the judge that gives to me
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should be dropped as a result he's on he's going to pull not for the kids. it sure has been a rough ride since bradley manning was arrested in may two thousand and ten for the first ten months of his incarceration the former army intelligence analyst was held in solitary confinement for twenty three hours a day in a six by eight foot cell windowless cell forced to sleep naked without bed sheets and kept on suicide watch during that time hundreds of scholars experts human rights advocates as well were signing petitions and letters to have him released from what was dubbed draconian conditions essentially called torture many critics would argue that manning was essentially forced into pleading guilty on ten charges because of the conditions he has been held in by the u.s. government but at the end of the day when manning stood up and owned up to what he did and from what i've been told and read about his manos apologies for his
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behavior for his actions. there one of the most shocking items leaked by money was that so-called collateral murder video let's take a look. right. well that shows a u.s. helicopter attack in two thousand and seven you may recall targeting civilians in baghdad eleven people were gunned none of them returned to the moon reuters journalists though we could see here in a helicopter coming in opening fire on a van that arrived at the scene in which two children they were seriously injured in court money and compare this to a child with a magnifying glass from my five agent told us the revelation did a great service though to the relatives of the victims. for hiv the family also a six by still mostly canister and one title rocky families pushed against them to find out what was happening. and attempt to deny it see he is saying there was
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nobody else i can ask but i didn't know what had happened so by exposing this bradley manning's case closed i was your case he says on the two piece on the price county the speed of light he was tried and i think it went to one other aspect to our is that he tried to slash and other mainstream media outlets to begin with the washington post the new york times and the political web site and he was business and in fact i'm prepared to say that if this were if they retained a political thing like it was to netflix i pray that the old model did not respond to this push toward transparency to inform the american people what is done in the name it's amazing though isn't it that the the people who actually committed those war crimes in collateral murder video have never been arrested have never been charged and have been court martialed is the person who exposes war crimes who is court martialed and this happens time and time again with whistle blows you shoot the messenger but you protect the people committing the crime.
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still to come on r t the high powered lobby that could further inflame the middle east israel pulls the strings in washington to secure america go ahead should he decide to attack iran over its nuclear program we talk about. i'd also to america's eighty five billion dollars worth of cuts to deal with the president. was forced to sign them into effect with politics providing of a progress on capitol hill just a couple of stories ahead. there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s. army stopped using search or targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized about killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is to practice shooting at what you
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want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law enforcement targets incorporated has created a special line of paper targets for police called new more hesitation so it's on these targets well maybe mexican drug cartel members or l.a. street gangs nope children and pregnant women you know law enforcement targets offers a product to desensitize police from hesitating to blow away women carrying the unborn and innocent children and you know it's even sicker than that i bet law enforcement agencies are probably buying these things up by the thousands but that's just my opinion. israel could become the first of a nation to enjoy the status of america's major strategic ally which could mean
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getting the backing of the us should israel decide to attack iran and this it could be among the issues discussed on sunday when thousands representing america's pro israel lobby will gather in the u.s. capital for the annual conference more on this that for political analyst patrick having seen as you assume a line how to patrick if israel cements this alliance with the us where would americans all the line in terms of keeping its boisterous hour life one of the better would in check do you think. well the. diplomatic move as it is you know is as everyone can see and what's really happening here is israel has reentered the fray as a political spoiler because as we know the u.s. and some noises coming out of washington there is quite a little contingent within the united states that is looking to perhaps get into panic because she should not be talking abrasively as they have in previous years and israel has entered the fray the israeli lobby is really putting pressure on
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those politicians in america to take a more israeli line which is a more hardcore lied us to do with perhaps an flame war with or around how both states are teaching ties with israel affect america's standing in the arab world how to go down i mean could the u.s. be left to deal with severe consequences because of his roles political ambitions you think. look at the world is destroyed. you know saudi arabia and israel don't have any problems with each other as we know because those two countries are more concerned with well saudi is control of money and and security and stability in israel and saudi act as a proper counterweight for each other in the middle east but there's not going to be a massive change the big change that we're looking at is a shift there is a shift away from this kind of like allegiance to israel that is on capitol hill in washington d.c.
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splits appearing because americans are realizing that it's not in their best interest it's not in american interest to follow israel's agenda so therefore aipac is not it's not beneficial for aipac to be running the government and want to anymore as i have for the past thirty years on the other impact is going to impart to get some of his international nuclear talks with iran written recently we saw a glimmer of hope that talked about having more talks ahead what kind of impact would a reinforced u.s. is many partnership have on attempts to find common ground without that. that would have a negative impact. what israel is trying to do here is they've noticed how israel is linked very quiet during the syrian uprising and that is because israel for its chance to get what it can from this particular. unrest north of its border in syria and what israel is looking for is always what israel is looking for is to increase its life and holdings so israel will be looking to seize the golan heights and keep
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it as a quote unquote security zone for israelis defense and of course in the golan heights we have the licenses which of coming to the news in recent weeks also we have water resources which israel needs very badly so it's a it's a bit of an opportunist agenda with regards to israel and syria and of course the deal with iran is also just to keep. in a permanent state of conflict over in the middle east as well and during that backing israel and whatever is and israel's joining us on a course put together practicalities come in let the money it costs on top of the sequester of the financial side of this we were just seeing spending cuts not taking huge effect in the u.s. where the money to support israel's agenda come from the. well as you as everyone knows by now oh i. can it's really a political action committee. the cost of their influence over washington is
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approximately one billion dollars us they make they wrote a check for every congressman senator who is running for office not just the ones who win back everybody so they are loyal to israel you know the whole. country guarantee military aid which is free money for the tune of around four billion dollars a year in total and this is a giant money laundering operation where money is circulated between the united states and israel and that's paid for by the u.s. taxpayer how to get us a jupiter glad list for twenty first century was things he time tonight thank you. this friendship leave. the apac congress this sunday on. more and more of britain's young professionals a look at to take their talents cells where despite government plans to cut the top rate of income tax next month but with the country's most economically active cluster when dealing in numbers then there are fee is the police and make is on
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doing enough to avert further brain drain down to farmer examines what's driving the young and small to clean up pastas. jesse off in search of a new life abroad that is what three and a half million britons have done over the last decade but it isn't just pensioners seeking a retirement in the sun latest figures show that actually two thirds of them are professionals age twenty two to forty four and it's feared the outflow of talent is actually hurting the nation's economy clearly a lot of these people are trained professionals who are seeking to build a life elsewhere and i think that that's something policymakers should be very concerned about so what are the reasons for the exodus chiropractic feet treats dozens of high end london kind suffering from stress every week britain's high rate of tax he says makes many consider emigrating but that's only half the story the weather is a big factor in this country it's one thing to want to get a lifestyle basically they i know from my my point of view when i was younger in
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south africa for example at the weekend we could go you know maybe water skiing we could go out we could of the lifestyle and this is what they're seeing they're seeing it in places like florida or in the states they're saying that some countries in europe that there's this sort of heat it's the lifestyle really it's the things people want and the quick straw poll on the street seems to confirm what he's saying but consider emigrating i definitely yes why where they are trying their finances just a nice if it works where can i so there i straight is like would you ever consider emigrating yeah why. just put. up with lots of lovely countries in the world and it would be nice to experience living in one of them so britain has a lot to compete with it can't change the weather but from next month the top rate of income tax will come down to forty five p. in the pound well there are no she's government needs to do more at the moment and understandably government and commentators are entirely focused on austerity but we
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need to send a signal about the future the twenty five year olds the thirty year olds are thinking long term not in the immediate future and we need to try and explain to them that it's this country. you will be able to keep more of your income that you are and that there is the place for aspiration and for growth it's here in britain despite the outflow of talent net migration into the e.u. k. is still around two hundred thousand people a year and independent think tank migration what she claims than acts as a counterbalance although exactly how much is also being debated the reality is in there there are a number of talented people coming to the country but there's also as we well know there's a large migration from issues of asylum where they've come from very troubled and and difficult backgrounds through to economic migration where people are just trying to improve their lives that are not necessary replacing the level of skill
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that we're using so it's not a straight match for match whatever the true picture it is clear easily using its homegrown talent on average at a rate of four hundred people per day flying away from britain's economic troubles on a one way ticket is becoming an increasingly popular option andrew farmer. london . on line a close call for palestinian prime minister caught up in erupting violence in the west bank and treated at the sea we've got the pictures at r.t. dot com we're telling you how israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets crowds furious at the building of a barrier cutting them off from their own land. and occupy the office that's the story talking about one of the n.y.p.d. finest now left red faced after protesters acquitted of assaulting him because video showed the police account didn't add up to the evidence said r.t. dot com. a rally in central moscow's call for russian orphans to be better protected the large number of children in care plus cases of abuse and death
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abroad have brought the topic very much the fore in russia election was at saturday's demonstrations. at least twelve thousand people gathered in central moscow to march for the better protection of children many said they went to the streets at the call of their heart they chanted slogans orphans need mothers not graves russia definitely has some six hundred seventy thousand orphans and finding a home for them in russia has been difficult for many that's meant going abroad for a new family although the government now wants that to change the death of maxime cruz mean in texas has brought this into sharp focus again just weeks after the law came into force restricting foreign adoptions specifically americans taking on russian or france the u.s. district attorney ruled that the three year old died in january accidentally the final autopsy showed that the bruises on his body were self-inflicted and a behavioral disorder meant maxime was likely to harm himself russian authorities are still not convinced and want full access to all the files of the investigation
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it's worth mentioning that q. deal seems younger brother was also dropped by the same family from the same orphanage and is still living with them although the mother now has only restricted access so it's said it is really in moscow demonstrators called for good deal to be brought home to russia and that all those involved in finding homes for the countries or france need to work much harder in protecting society's most vulnerable children but seems case is definitely far from over both russia and the united states will continue their investigations into his death and we will tell you what they find. nato has officially apologized for the killing of the woods last month calling it a tragedy helicopter fired at the children aged seven and eight who were tending kathlyn the rule. mistaking them for insurgents the nato led campaign against taliban militants in afghanistan's long been condemned in the country for the number of innocent civilians caught up in the crossfire. greek teachers and
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students have rallied across athens against new education reforms and austerity cuts they fear the moves will bring the first steps towards abolishing free education blame the government for devaluing schooling by heavily reducing teacher numbers also followed this week's accidental deaths of two students from carbon monoxide poisoning but used a makeshift heating stove because they couldn't afford fuel. midnite twenty six said no great programs. in fact after the break given the all star new shows a run for their money breaking the set on air so that. will. download the official. so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now
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